Shannon graduated with a degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 2011. She joined the Chan Zuckerberg Initiate after working as a full stack engineer at Pandora Media for several years. At CZI she is a member of the Science Tools and Platform team helping to develop open source tools for Biology research. In her spare time she’s been doing her best to catch up on all the Biology she’s missed since high school and learning about the intersection between engineering and science research.